So Many Games Going On

This is about the point in the blog where the focus shifts from detailing out every winner in every game, and moves more towards focusing on the standings and championship games.  Just way to many games about to be going on to detail out each one, this is about the point in time where Tim starts a Facebook chat while we watch the games.

Most people in the pool have losses, with much more to come throughout tonight, it's been a bloodbath the past 2 days.

For access to the current excel standings document, use this link.  The standings are now updated with all of today's action, we had a lot of losses today.

Big South Conference Quarterfinals

• All 8 Big South teams were in action today, and considering we have all 8 in our pool, that means we had 4 losses in the Big South that impacted standings.

Missouri Valley Conference Quarterfinals

• Wichita State easily handled Evansville today, which gave Doug another loss;  With 84% of us on Wichita State, this conference tournament will have the least impact to our standings.

Wichita's mascot is not a bee, cornstalk, gang symbol, or whatever other ideas you may have had.  He is a piece of wheat, his name is WuShock, and this is his back story...

History of WuShock

It was in 1904 when Wichita State University was known as Fairmount College that R.J. Kirk (Class of 1907), a football manager, invented the name "Wheat Shockers" for posters to advertise a game against the Chilocco Indians.

Kirk had put the word "Indians" under the name Chilocco and a press agent for the Wichita Fall Festival, helping to publicize the contest, demanded that Kirk should produce a nickname for Fairmount to balance the poster.

In those days, when wheat was shocked or headed, the majority of the players earned a stake for college expenses by working all summer in the harvest and threshing and came back tough enough to play 60-minute games.

Although the name was never officially adopted, it caught on, was combined into one word, and survived until it was shortened to "Shockers" as Wichita State teams are known today. 

He has been the WSU mascot since 1948, and has been in the movies, thrown out of a basketball game, been kidnapped and has entertained thousands of Shocker fans

Ohio Valley Conference Semifinals

• Belmont will play Murray State or Eastern Kentucky in the Ohio Valley Championship tomorrow, we'll have our first winner in the pool and first NCAA team to punch a ticket to the tournament

There was much more action, but I am too tired to write about it.  All standing are updated.